Only one couple in over 11,000 live long enough to celebrate their diamond wedding. More matches are used in tho United Kingdom than in any other country in tho world. Ants have brains larger in proportion to the sizo of their bodies than any other living creature. On an average, Great Britain yields 30 bushels of wheat to tho acre; New South Wales, 15 ; the United States, 12; and Russia., 8. It is a punishable offence in Austria for lovers to vary the official position of a postage stamp, whether on a card or on a letter, to indicate their sentiments. Nearly every Shetland household has attached to it a flock of tamo gulls. Eighteen thousand bricks can be manufactured by steam in ten hours. Canada possesses over 1200 newspapers, of which 117 are published daily.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3802, 12 April 1913, Page 3
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